That's fine.
On Apr 6, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:
> John,
> There was some concern from Chime that the sort of "saving patient
> life" use-case might bit a bit unwise from a medical standpoint. Chime
> suggested, can we discover if we have an "X-ray indication"
> attached to
> the HL7 information model:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-grddl-wg/2007Mar/0126.html
>
> However, I don't know if that's compelling enough as an example.
> Anyways, would like to address this XML/OWL example in Primer, and
> keep
> it short, simple, and catchy.
>
> -harry
>
>
> John Madden wrote:
>>
>> Harry,
>>
>> Yes, I am putting suggested revisions to this use case together now
>> and will post this weekend together with comments.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 4, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Harry Halpin wrote:
>>
>>> John (cc'ing the GRDDL WG list),
>>>
>>> As per our last conversation, I was hoping if you can help us
>>> with the
>>> "killer" GRDDL use-case you were talking about earlier. In
>>> particular,
>>> the use-case I believe has a patient going to the doctor twice,
>>> and so
>>> filling out two different HL7 CDA documents, both in XML. On his
>>> first
>>> visit, he records that he is allergic to a particular family of
>>> drugs.
>>> On the second visit, he forgets that he is allergic to this
>>> family of
>>> drugs, and so his second HL7 CDA document does not record this. A
>>> doctor
>>> prescribes him a drug on the second visit, unknowingly a drug
>>> that is a
>>> subclass of the family of drugs the patient is allergic to by
>>> virtue of
>>> its properties.
>>>
>>> Yet the hospital can automatically catch this error and save the
>>> patient's life by converting both HL7 documents via GRDDL to RDF,
>>> and
>>> merging them. Therefore the old data about the patient being
>>> allergic is
>>> not lost, but discovered.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, because the family of drugs is kept in an ontology,
>>> some
>>> sort of simple OWL entailment can show the drug the doctor
>>> prescribed is
>>> a subclass of the drug the patient said they were allergic to.
>>>
>>> John - this piece would be a rewrite of piece of the Primer Chime
>>> already wrote. I'm happy to write the prose if you can produce
>>> another
>>> HL7 document that describes this sort of use-case, and feel free to
>>> modify anything , including data files, (all files are linked
>>> from the
>>> primer):
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/doc29/primer.html#hl7
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- -harry
>>>
>>> Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh
>>> http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> -harry
>
> Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh
> http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426
>